The following is a joke and is to be taken with a light heart. Michael and Jason are great guys and go out of their way to support the startup community. I know TC50 will be great event and look forward to it.
A couple hours ago Jason Calacanis and his partner is crime Michael Arrington posted a change on twitter to come up with 10 reason why I should attend the TC50 conference. I thought it would be more constructive to list 10 reason NOT to attend the conference.
1) I've got 2,995 reason why not to go. $3k per ticket is a ridiculous amount to pay just to attend a "startup friendly" event. At the most it should have been $19.95 with room,board and a baked potato.
2) Panel of experts? They've assembled a gaggle of nobodies. Many of these "experts" don't know the difference between SEO and CEO let alone how to run a company.
3) Go to DEMO. DEMO is a better organized and more prestigious conference. DEMO also has a sweet square dancing competition(*1)
4) Last year's startups were weak and second-rate, so i can only assume this years will be much worse.
5) If you go to TC50 along with everybody else who will be left to report when twitter goes down?
6) It's on a Monday. I can think of no better way to get a bad case of the "Mondays" than attending a Geek riddled conference.
7) Have you tried getting a room? The best rate available on kayak.com is $489 a night not including a baked potato.
8) $50,000 is chump change for a startup. You're better off taking $5,000 from Paul Graham in exchange for 10% of your company and majority stake of your soul.
9) Michael Arrington(*2) and Jason Calacanis(*3) are pompous #$%@$ bags. Not to mention Jason Calacanis is known for plagiarizing many works.
10)I'm not presenting or attending. That should be the most compelling reason not to go ;)
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square dancing 2.0(*2)
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1 comments:
You are quite right on all of your points.
The main goals of TechCrunch50 are:
- selling tickets
- selling DemoPit places
- getting enough attention from the media to get enough applicants fro 2009.
For a real startup the costs involved are too high:
Travel (from UK), lodging and lost time (can't call on prospects during the show).
For a VC funded startup maybe those costs doesn't matter, as they are spending money of their VC.
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